Automotive

One Solution Optimizes Usability, Visibility, Reporting & Workflow for Freight Management

April 20, 2012

Challenge: In a highly competitive transportation market, with growing demands from all parties in the supply chain, transportation solutions become more individual and complex. Therefore, trustworthy and flexible logistics is more in focus now than ever before. Four Soft is empowering an international freight management company with the power to act according to their customers' individual needs.

Seamless Roll-Out: From Centralized Inventory Management to Globalized Aftermarket Supply Chain

April 20, 2012

Challenge: In the construction equipment industry, service parts availability is critical. Before working with Syncron, our client's dealer supply chain was fragmented with each dealer being responsible for their own inventory management. It was difficult for our client to get visibility or control of the supply chain to ensure high service levels for their end-customers, with inventory overstocking, obsolescence and emergency orders creating huge unnecessary costs.

ERP System Brings 95% Savings, 100% On-Time Delivery with Single-Source Solution

April 20, 2012

Challenge: Meticulous in manufacturing performance and nimble in the ability to optimize plant and supply chain operations are the requirements for our client to meet a diverse range of customer specifications and shipment protocols. With a bar coding software that used up to 12 different databases, and a manual import/export process between EDI and the multiple vendor solutions that made up their ERP application, their system did not support their goals for flexibility and efficiency.

Implementation of New TMS Simplifies Operations, Increases Customer Base

April 20, 2012

Challenge: There is always concern when there is a major change in technology used company-wide.What if you were told by your customer you had no choice but to change to a new technology because of their changing needs? Our client was in this type of a situation, and needed a new Transportation Management Solution and driver handheld technology.

Global Exporter Gains Supply Chain Success Via Improved Communication & Visibility

April 20, 2012

Challenge: A large U.S.-based manufacturer exports thousands of shipments each year around the globe. Practicing lean supply chain management, the company often manufactures products as orders are received. To meet its customers' needs, on-time deliveries are critical. The exporter's ocean transportation group strives to continuously improve on-time deliveries, communication about changes to cargo delivery dates, and fulfillment of service contract commitments.

Fortune 500 Company Consolidates Carrier Choices, Saves Big on Global Transportation

April 20, 2012

Challenge: Our client is a Fortune 500 company that serves as the world's largest supplier of pumps and systems. With over 40,000 employees in 60 countries, the $10. 9 billion company ships their products worldwide to customers. All company locations had their own decision making ability to choose their own transportation provider. In 2009, there were over 400 freight forwarders used worldwide for ocean and air shipments.

Trucking Company Improves Customer Service with Real-Time Intelligence

April 20, 2012

Challenge: One trucking company client implemented Cheetah Freight to intelligently inject technology into their dispatch management process to provide real-time shipment status information to their customers, provide improved decision making tools to P&D dispatchers, and improve the outbound load planning process.

Cost Savings for Freight Payment

April 20, 2012

Challenge: Prospective customer was having frustrations with their current provider in regards to performing quality audits, seeing visibility of data, better process to handle exception management and being responsive to their overall needs.

A View to Accuracy: Tools Manufacturer Implements Invaluable Forecasting Solution

April 20, 2012

Challenge: Our customer manufactures and distributes private label hand tools and related products which are sold at Home Depot, Lowes, Menards, and Pep Boys, among others. In 2009, our customer decided to expand visibility to in-store inventories and improve forecasting and customer service.

"Order-to-Cash" Application Brings Customers, Clients, Partners Together With Stellar Results

April 20, 2012

Challenge: When you receive an order to ship product, it's essential that the product is allocated against the customer's forecast and the "system" to trigger appropriate inventory replacement signals. The client identified our ability to develop an "order-to-cash" solution capable of integrating into their existing ERP system, and advised that they had lots of data; but not always readily available and slow to get.